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Thursday, May 01, 2008
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Funny or Die
On the heels of my post about Jonathan Schwartz CEO plugging Aggregate knowledge, I was reminded about another event from the past. Sequoia Capital partner Mark Kvamme was speaking at the Stanford Venture lab panel. As part of the discussion, he announced that the site funnyordie was going live. His spin on it was that it was an amateur effort by his teenage son who had spawned the idea and had roped in actor Will Ferrel into the project as well.
This had the intended effect on me and I was wowed by the ingeniousness of the folks involved. However, I later found that it was a well-orchestrated start-up and not a serendipitous accident as it was projected to be. No doubt Mark had full reason to plug his start-up, but I felt hoodwinked on what I perceived to be a mis-representation.
This had the intended effect on me and I was wowed by the ingeniousness of the folks involved. However, I later found that it was a well-orchestrated start-up and not a serendipitous accident as it was projected to be. No doubt Mark had full reason to plug his start-up, but I felt hoodwinked on what I perceived to be a mis-representation.
Monday, April 28, 2008
New York & Company email spam
I am checking an email account that has not been used for the past few months. The inbox had a preponderance of emails from New York & Company. I have received 19 emails in April from them. Ditto for March. I wonder what their click through and unsubscribe rates look like, given this spamming.
PR for Aggregate Knowledge
At the web 2.0 conference, Sun CEO Jonatha Schwartz brought up Aggregate Knowledge's technology and its sophistication. I was quite impressed by the traction that AK was receiving. But later on, I got to know from their competitor Baynote that Schwartz is a Limited Partner at Kleiner Perkins, one of the investors in Aggregate Knowledge. Another connection being that Kleiner Perkins was also one of the investors in Sun in its early days.
Great Public Relations for AK. But the plug did not feel good after knowing the facts.
Great Public Relations for AK. But the plug did not feel good after knowing the facts.
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Thursday, May 01, 2008
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Funny or Die
On the heels of my post about Jonathan Schwartz CEO plugging Aggregate knowledge, I was reminded about another event from the past. Sequoia Capital partner Mark Kvamme was speaking at the Stanford Venture lab panel. As part of the discussion, he announced that the site funnyordie was going live. His spin on it was that it was an amateur effort by his teenage son who had spawned the idea and had roped in actor Will Ferrel into the project as well.
This had the intended effect on me and I was wowed by the ingeniousness of the folks involved. However, I later found that it was a well-orchestrated start-up and not a serendipitous accident as it was projected to be. No doubt Mark had full reason to plug his start-up, but I felt hoodwinked on what I perceived to be a mis-representation.
Monday, April 28, 2008
New York & Company email spam
I am checking an email account that has not been used for the past few months. The inbox had a preponderance of emails from New York & Company. I have received 19 emails in April from them. Ditto for March. I wonder what their click through and unsubscribe rates look like, given this spamming.
PR for Aggregate Knowledge
At the web 2.0 conference, Sun CEO Jonatha Schwartz brought up Aggregate Knowledge's technology and its sophistication. I was quite impressed by the traction that AK was receiving. But later on, I got to know from their competitor Baynote that Schwartz is a Limited Partner at Kleiner Perkins, one of the investors in Aggregate Knowledge. Another connection being that Kleiner Perkins was also one of the investors in Sun in its early days.
Great Public Relations for AK. But the plug did not feel good after knowing the facts.
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